Jousting at Windmills
Maryland PSC Subsidizes Offshore Wind
Maryland’s residential and smaller business customers will bear the full cost of the subsidies.
Considerations for New Utility Business Model
Public Interest Comes First
A business model should maximize the long-term welfare of utility customers.
Let's Keep Electric Infrastructure Conversation Going
We Should Not Sit Around Until Major Blackout
We can’t wait another decade to start planning for our energy future.
Sheila Hollis: Energy Law Career
Partner/chair of the DC office of Duane Morris LLP
She was the first director of FERC's Office of Enforcement, establishing the office and its policies and procedures.
Engineering Climate Change Challenge
Charles Bayless
We talked with retired utility leader Charles Bayless, who has served in several influential roles in the electricity business.
Electricity Eliminated Drudgery, Now Enriching Life
Regulation for Third Era of the Age of Electricity
With this renewed interest and involvement in applications of electricity, will we need new regulatory mechanisms?
July 13, 1977: Infamous NYC power outage
On July 13, 1977, the infamous New York power outage took place. The Big Apple was brought to its knees after a lightning storm. For twenty-five hours, nine million people were in the dark as mass looting and rioting broke out across the boroughs. A thousand fires, sixteen hundred looted stores, five hundred and fifty injured police officers, four thousand arrests. All this while the fear of the notorious Son of Sam murders magnified. A Bronx car dealership had fifty Pontiacs stolen.
CEOs of NRECA and NiSource
Check out interviews with CEOs of National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and NiSource.
Rate Case Roundup: New York
New York American Water can raise its rates by $3.63 million, but not $8.7 million.